WORTHY MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173436
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: WORTHY MANOR
Statutory Address:: WORTHY MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173436
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: WORTHY MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: WORTHY MANOR

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WORTHY MANOR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Porlock
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 85887 48146

Details

In the entry for: PORLOCK CP ASHLEY COMBE PORLOCK WEIR Worthy Manor

The entry shall be ammended to read: PORLOCK CP WORTHY COMBE PORLOCK Worthy Manor

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SS84NE PORLOCK CP ASHLEY COMBE PORLOCK WEIR 3/44 Worthy Manor 22.5.69

GV II Manor House. C16, possibly earlier, extensively altered, especially late C19-early C20, possibly by C F A Voysey. Red sandstone random rubble, part roughcast, slate roof hipped to right, extended as catslide over porch, stone stack rising from eaves left of porch, right gable end, and 3 stone stacks on south-west return L-plan. Two storeys, 4 bays, all early C20 casements, 2-light left of projection beside stack containing 3-light, 2-storey porch with glazed opening left, 2-light caseaent end bay right, ground floor similar 2 and 3-light windows left of cambered head entrance to porch, 2-light casement to right, chamfered pointed arch door frame with ribbed door. Three bay left return with coped verges at gable end. Interior not seen, said to contain plank and auntin screens passage, pointed arch wooden door frames, chamfered beams with enriched stops and exposed collar beam roof; information taken from previous list. (Pevsner, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, 1958; Chadwyck-Healey, The History of the Part of West Somerset, 1901).

Listing NGR: SS8588748146

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 265457
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.